00:00Poverty is not an accident. It is not inevitable. It is not a fate to be accepted.
00:09It is a man-made condition that can and must be eliminated by governments, institutions, and individuals.
00:17Nelson Mandela
00:21There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them but in the form of bread.
00:28Mahatma Gandhi
00:32Poverty is a mental disease, and the cure is not charity, but empowerment.
00:38Muhammad Yunus
00:41No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
00:46Eleanor Roosevelt
00:50My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.
00:56Dalai Lama
01:00To have nothing is to be poor, but to have loved and lost is to be infinitely poorer.
01:06Victor Hugo
01:10We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
01:18Oscar Wilde
01:19True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces
01:25beggars needs restructuring.
01:28Martin Luther King Jr.
01:33And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
01:38Friedrich Nietzsche
01:42I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I
01:50cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
01:55Helen Keller
01:59The human heart is always in need of a thousand things, and that which is most needed by man is
02:05luxury.
02:07Alexis de Tocqueville
02:11It is a fair division of property when all men have their share.
02:16Charles Dickens
02:20If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa
02:28A working man is the slave of his money. George Bernard Shaw
02:36Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
02:45The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
02:51John Ruskin
02:55Poverty is a humiliation, and it is a disgrace to mankind. It is not the will of God.
03:03Anwar Sadat
03:07Poverty is not just the lack of income, but the lack of capabilities.
03:13Amartya Sun
03:16It is the truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want
03:23of a wife.
03:24Jane Austen
